Mix06 live (3): Dean Hachamovitch on IE7

Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft General Manager for Internet Explorer team, about Internet Explorer 7: Minimalized user interface. Quick access to favorite sites. Open Search: A9-based open standard, will be fully part of IE7. Printing from IE7 will be a lot better than it is in current browser versions: no parts of the page cut off! (applause from the audience). Zooming in and out of a page...

There are a lot of bad things on the web, like phishing. IE7 will enhance customer confidence and make surfing the web more secure. Beyond the junk mail protection: the phishing filter, high assurance certificates, and the "infocard". Users want a bricks-and-mortar like level of confidence. When IE7 determines that a website is malicious, the address bar in the browser will turn red. The InfoCard will create a user-based identity token. It is not a username-password management service. It is a new concept, making usernames and passwords obsolete. It will not only contain your identity, but also things like credits, preferences etc. As far as I can see it is (from a functional viewpoint) like the fusion of a vCard, a cookie, and Microsoft passport. Infocard can even interact with PHP scripts on Linux, which will be demonstrated later today...

CSS support will be a lot better in IE7. RSS support: ev ery application in Windows will know about the RSS feeds to which you have subscribed through IE7. RSS is not only for blogs, it is also for distributing rich data. Yahoo, Ebay and Amazon are already using the RSS Simple List Extension specification to tag their data.

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